chaobell | ph00d m3m3 (Reply)

Via beeblebabe@lj, et al…

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Bold and cross out any items you never would again

1. Venison – preferably in the form of sausage or jerky; ex-Mate brought home some particularly stringy and gristly ground and sliced venison and that just kind of put me off non-sausage and non-jerky forms for life.
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros - shit yes
4. Steak tartare – not yet
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari - As long as it is in battered, fried ring form, I can deal with it. There’s an amusing story about my dad at a seafood buffet in Kemah, loading down his plate with what looked like chicken livers and then getting to the table, picking one up, coming within half an inch of biting it, and noticing the tentacles… and then slowly putting the deceptively fried squid back on the plate.
12. Pho – ohhhh yes so much good pho here
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart – There was a hot dog cart in Hermann Park a long time ago. I don’t know if it’s still there. It was awesome.
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes – no, but now that I actually, y’know, like tomatoes I’d like to seek some out
22. Fresh wild berries - man, this is the best thing ever. I go to the farm and go walking around, yoinking dewberries off their stems and eating them right there. But right now there are two horses at the farm, and they’ve probably eaten every berry there is. Not that I’m complaining because dude, horses, but.
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans - does edamame count?
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda – I have no idea what this even is
31. Wasabi peas – although peanuts are superior.
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl – shit yes, any soup is made twice as awesome by serving it in a sourdough bowl.
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut – I just can’t get past the smell. My grandmother used to heat it up and gas me out of the house.
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects – there is not enough strikethrough in the entire world, I don’t care where they’re a delicacy, I don’t care how much like popcorn they taste, I don’t care if delicious shrimp are only slightly removed, some things are just not food.
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu – Strike one: hell of expensive. Strike two: supposedly doesn’t even taste all that good. Strike three: could kill me if prepared by someone who does not know what the fuck he is doing. YER OUTTA HERE
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin – it’s more the texture than anything, but ew.
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips - I like carob just as much as chocolate, sometimes.
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian – I don’t know, I’ve never actually smelled a durian in person so I don’t know how bad it really is, but I admit I’m curious
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain - man, there’s this new little cafe around here that serves fried plantain chips with their sandwiches. Awesome pulled pork sandwich + plantain chips: major source of OM NOM NOM.
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie Hostess Cupcakes
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef – no, but oh god DO WANT
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers - Nasturtiums stuffed with cream cheese are awesome.
89. Horse – not that I know of D:
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish – It just doesn’t taste right to me. Also, I know what they look like. That animal does not look like food to me.
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta – For dinner tonight, actually! I just learned how to make it from my silicone cup cookbook and was amazed by how easy and tasty it is. Also that there is apparently instant polenta sold at the grocery store, come on, that’s silly.
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee – also do want
100. Snake – rattlesnake sausage is surprisingly not bad.